Crosscut saw



Patented '0a. 1s, 1923.

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To allwhomz'tnwyconcem:-

Be it known that we, -LENNART Os'rmiDAHL and HARRY GLENMORE CowmNe, citizens of the United States, residing at Fairfax, in 5 the county of Pierce, State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Crosscut Saw, of. which the following isa specification.

This invention relates: to cross-cut saws, one of its objects being to rearrange and to change the shape of the raker tooth `on a cross-cut saw whereby each raker and its lead portion are combined in one tooth and are so positioned as to eliminate dead sawdust spaces such as are provided in saws where the rakers are located between two spaces only one of which becomes active durin each cutting. operation.

further object is to increase the efhciency of the saw by providing only one sawdust space adjacent each raker tooth,

lA still further object is to provide those points of the rakers nearest the center of the saw with rounded extremities located inwardly or upwardly from the path of movement for the other points of the rakers so as toform lead portions whereby a fellin saw can be more readily pulled and wi cut faster than where the raker is provided with two diverging cutting points as heretofore.

.A still furtherobjeet is to provide more teeth in a saw of given length than is possible where each raker is extended between ltivo sawdust spaces, thus correspondingly` -increasing' the efficiency of the saw.

Another object is to provide an improved construction and arrangement of rakers which can be used in connection with felling saws of dierent t pes.

.With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it beingl understood vention shown can be made without departingfrom the spirit of the'in'vention.

n the accompanying drawings thepreferred form of the invention' has been shown.

In said drawin Figure 1 is a si e elevation of the middle ortion of a fellin 'saw `having the present improvements com ined therewith. l5 j Figure 2 is an enlarged side elevation-of that, within the scope of what is claimed," changes in the precise embodiment of the ina portion of afelling sawand'showing the action of:one of thel lead intsof a raker' gathering a ribbon of-w 4 into the sawdust space in advance thereof.

Referring to the figures characters of l0 reference 1 designates a portionof asaw blade the center of which is designated by a broken line shown at 2 in AFigure 1. j This line bisects the central group of cutter teeth 3 which, in the present instance, consist of 05 four teeth filed on opposite sides alternately.

Similar groups of cutter teeth are located along the edge of the saw and those groups nearest the center of the saw are separated by rakers 4 of the usual construction each 70 of which has oppositely curved raker points 5, each of said rakers being spaced from the group 3 adjacent thereto by sawdust vs aces 6. This old arrangement is onl provlded adjacent the center of the saw lade. At other points the grou s of cutter teeth 3 are separated by a sing e sawdust space 7 and one of the end teeth of each group constitutes a raker as shown at 8. The

rakers 8 are similar to the rakers 4i with the 30 exception that those points thereof nearest the center of the saw are hammered down or swaged to provide rounded terminals 9 `Vance of the tooth 10. Thus during the movement of the saw in one direction the teeth 10 on one-half of the saw will collect the sawdust and ribbon produced by the cutter teeth 3 and gather them into the spaces` 7, while during the movement of the saw in the Opposite direction the raker teeth 10 on the other half of the saw will gatherthe sawdust and wood ribbon into the' 100 spaces 7 adjacent thereto and the first mentioned raker teeth 10 remain inactive, the lead teeth 9 thereof riding freely through the cut and ymaterially rreducin the ull necessary t0 voperate the saw. `nstea of 105 providing a pair of sawdust receiving spaces .adjacent each raker, as heretofore, one cfa-which spaces becomes dead during each cutting operation', one of said` spaces adjacent each raker is utilized in the pres- Iii ent instance for holding an additional cutter tooth so that the eiiiciencyfof the saw is -A greatly increased.

Although the improvement has been lshown and described combined with cutter teeth of a particular form it is to be understood that said implrovement can be used in connection with Iot er types of felling saws. What is claimed is: n A felling cross-cut saw including a blade 'provided with separate groups of teeth, each group including a set of cutter teeth sharpened on opposite sides alternately, rakers interposed between those groups of teeth adjacent th center of the saw blade each having diverging raker points, each of said rakers being se arated from the two adjoining groups o cutter teeth by saw dust spaces extendin into the blade beyond the inner ends of t e cutter teeth, the remain- Y .c Leve-,esa

lfrom the next adjoining grou sitioned at that side of the raker nearest the center of the blade.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto axed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

LENNART OSTERDAHL. HARRY G. COWLING.

Witnesses:

RALPH HOOVER, Vmerm B. Hoeven. 

